Thursday, June 22, was marked, sadly, by the funeral services for American student Otto Warmbier following his captivity in North Korea. While others mourned the loss of this young man’s life at the hands of the tyrannical communist regime, MSNBC’s Morning Joe opted for…
Thursday, June 22, was marked, sadly, by the funeral services for American student Otto Warmbier following his captivity in North Korea. While others mourned the loss of this young man’s life at the hands of the tyrannical communist regime, MSNBC’s Morning Joe opted for a different route. How you ask? Why, by comparing Donald Trump to North Korea, of course! In an exchange with co-host Mika Brzezinski, Random House editor, Jon Meacham, compared the actions of the President at an Iowa rally to, “regimes like North Korea, where the dear leader speaks and we’ re all supposed to salute.”
The comments occurred as Brzezinski sought analogies for Trump’s Wednesday Iowa rally from Meacham. A tentative comparison to Richard Nixon was made initially, but the editor opted for an even more extreme example after Brzezinski sought to “broaden” the scope her original question:
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: So, Jon Meacham, I’m curious what this reminiscent of, what could this be reminiscent of if you had to make a parallel, a president telling networks to turn off their cameras, a president telling untruths, lies to an audience of supporters that basically treat those lies as applause lines.
JON MEACHAM: The best example is —
BRZEZINSKI: I’m at a loss.
MEACHAM: Yeah, well, the best example is President Nixon, and even that is a little tricky — no dork pun intended.
